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From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Subject: Re: Postgres / ingres
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Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 06:11:03 GMT
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alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) writes:

>In article <93215.214303AIKXO@ASUACAD.BITNET> Kenji Okamoto <AIKXO@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>>I posted the patch of Ingres to 386bsd 0.1 about a half(or more) ago
>>to comp.unix.bsd.  However, I'm now in Arizona, so have not that source
>>with me.  As I mentioned at that time, I have now no time to share with
>>other persons on that project.  Furthermore, a notebook is the only one
>>PC I have now....
>>
>>If someone made more refinement on that patch, please post it here.

>Kenji, your patches are included in FreeBSD.
>I know of some bugs (in the original code) where static strings are modified,
>but I haven't had a chance to fix these.
You can always use the option -fwritable_strings (or so) for gcc to overcome
this problem. If it's not a real bug but this use is intended by Ingres.
But, I agree, you should have a look at it, first.

Just my 0.02 Franc

Norbert.
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